Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University;Vol. 56, No. 1

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Taxonomy of Mesopelagic Fishes Collected around the Ogasawara Islands by the T/S Oshoro-Maru

Tatsuta, Naoki;Imamura, Hisashi;Nakaya, Kazuhiro;Kawai, Toshio;Abe, Takuzou;Sakaoka, Keiichiro;Takagi, Shogo;Yabe, Mamoru

Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2115/55459
KEYWORDS : Taxonomy;Mesopelagic fishes;Ogasawara Islands;T/S Oshoro-maru;New Japanese records

Abstract

A taxonomic examination of 3,108 specimens of mesopelagic fishes, collected around the Ogasawara Islands in December 2010 by a beam trawl net operated from the T/S Oshoro-maru, Hokkaido University, Japan, resulted in the recognition of 99 species representing 34 families and 65 genera. Descriptions are provided for all species, two of them〔 a stomiid Eustomias braueri Zugmayer, 1911 and linophrynid Haplophryne mollis (Brauer, 1902)〕 being new records for Japan. Three species, a stomiid Eustomias sp., trachipterid Desmodema sp. and oneirodid Oneirodes sp., could not be identified at the species level

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